Sanitation

750 residents, but no toilet in this west Delhi slum

A slum cluster in west Delhi has a problem that can shame the government for its lofty claims of making Delhi an ideal city.

Publication Date: 
17/05/2013
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Slums, Toilets, Budget, Sanitation
Land

HC upholds govt right to acquire slum land

Bombay High Court last week turned down petitions questioning the constitutional validity of sections of the Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act, 1971 (the Slum Ac

Publication Date: 
14/05/2013
Mayura Janwalkar
Indian Express (Mumbai)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Land Acquisition, Slums, Compensation, High Court, Land Encroachments, Land
Health

Urban health mission gets Cabinet nod

Slum-dwellers in cities will now be able to avail health facilities

Urban poor, especially those living in slums, will now have access to primary healthcare services in cities and towns with the Cabinet recently approving the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) to function as a sub-mission under the overarching National Health Mission which also caters to rural populations.
To be implemented in 779 cities and towns with over 50,000 population, the NUHM aims to cover 7.75 crore people. Meant for the urban poor, it will primarily target the urban slum population of 68 million (6 crore) as revealed by the 2011 Census.

Publication Date: 
06/05/2013
Aditi Tandon
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Primary Health Care, Poverty, Population, Slums, Census 2011, Displacement, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Infant mortality, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Planning Commission, Health
Health

Decomposing the gap in childhood undernutrition between poor and non–poor in urban India, 2005–06

Despite the growing evidence from other developing countries, intra-urban inequality in childhood undernutrition is poorly researched in India. Additionally, the factors contributing to the poor/non-poor gap in childhood undernutrition have not been explored. This study aims to quantify the contribution of factors that explain the poor/non-poor gap in underweight, stunting, and wasting among children aged less than five years in urban India.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2013
Abhishek Kumar, Aditya Singh
PLoS ONE
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5
1-9
Tags:
Malnutrition, Child Health, Poverty, Urbanisation, Health Care, Maternal Health, Education, India, Slums
Habitat And Urbanisation

A hunger for justice

Medha Patkar is fasting for the rights of the poor whose homes in Mumbai’s Golibar are being razed. People’s lives are at stake. Is anyone paying attention, asks Sunaina Kumar.

Publication Date: 
20/04/2013
Sunaina Kumar
Tehelka (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mumbai, Slums, Medha Patkar, Maharashtra, Urbanisation
Habitat And Urbanisation

Global monitoring report 2013: rural-urban dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals

The 2013 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) marks the tenth edition of the GMR since the inception of the report in 2004. The GMR continues to provide an annual assessment of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Publication Date: 
17/04/2013
The World Bank
Tags:
Urbanisation, Poverty, India, Global, Slums, Sustainable Development, Environment, Economy, Trade, Aid, Developing Countries, Rural Poverty, Education, Malnutrition, Children, Women, Infant mortality, Maternal Health, Diseases, Water Supply, Sanitation
Habitat And Urbanisation

State’s housing policy for urban areas soon

Gandhinagar: Gujarat government is ready with its housing policy for urban areas. The policy is expected to be unveiled within a month. Sources say that the government will be announcing two sub-policies on slum rehabilitation and affordable housing in the cities simultaneously.

The government plans to build 22 lakh houses in the urban areas over the next five years out of which seven lakh are meant for rehabilitation of slum dwellers. The government has already got a survey of slums done in various cities.

Publication Date: 
17/04/2013
Rajeev Khanna
Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
Tags:
Gujarat, Housing, Slums, Rehabilitation, Lowcost Housing, Habitat And Urbanisation
Water Resources

Social ecology of domestic water use in Bangalore

The rapid growth of urban India has added new saliency to the resource conflict between the burgeoning cities and village India that continues to be the home for vast majority of Indians. Cities, like living organisms, depend on external metabolic flows to keep them alive. Among all the metabolic flows of matter and energy none is more important than water - especially water used for meeting basic drinking water and other domestic consumption needs. This paper develops a metabolic framework for domestic water use in Bangalore, one of the fastest growing urban agglomerations in India.

Publication Date: 
13/04/2013
Vishal K Mehta, Rimi Goswami, Eric Kemp-Benedict & et al
Economic and Political Weekly
48
15
40-50
Tags:
Water Resources, Urban Water Supply, Bangalore (T), Urban Habitat, Water Management, Groundwater, Cauvery, Arkavati, Water Demand, Water Distribution, Water Privatisation, Slums
Health

Study says 34% of city slum dwellers could have high BP

A study of the slum population in Chennai Corporation limits has revealed that 34 per cent have high blood pressure levels.

Publication Date: 
06/04/2013
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Tamil Nadu, Chennai (T), Slums, Hypertension (Blood Pressure), WHO
Habitat And Urbanisation

Low-cost housing could get FDI, but RBI stand is key

In line with its policy to encourage low-cost housing projects, the government is considering allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in such projects, subject to a host of conditions, including a

Publication Date: 
04/04/2013
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Lowcost Housing, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Housing Construction, Development, Slums, Rehabilitation, Construction Industry, Habitat And Urbanisation

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